King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' is not just a seminal document of American civil rights. It's a masterpiece of ...

Using the Student handout , have students consider Dr. King’s words in the “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” to imagine how ...

The seat is part of the Museum of the American Revolution's exhibit on the Declaration of Independence, opening Oct. 18.

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama as a result of his continuing crusade for civil rights.

While Martin Luther King Jr. was in Birmingham’s city jail last April ... Excerpts from the letter, which was addressed to “My Dear Fellow Clergymen”: We have waited for more than 340 ...

The freedom movement was at an early stage in Birmingham, and with King in jail, it suddenly faced a crisis of fundraising and leadership. On the same day, eight prominent White clergymen published a ...

Sixty-two years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's pen touches paper in a Birmingham jail cell, I contemplate the walls that ...

In observation of MLK Day, a new commemorative copy of King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (HarperCollins, $17.95) will be published Jan. 14 in time for the national holiday, and reading it — whether ...